Showing posts with label farrakhan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farrakhan. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Adolph Reed: The Convenience of Racial Leaders

The idea that black racial interest can be embodied in a single individual has always been attractively economical for white elites.

(from "All For One And None For All," part two of Adolph Reed's two-part series on Farrakhan in The Nation, January, 28 1991)

Adolph Reed: Supporting Farrakhan

[Supporting Farrakhan] is a totemic act of the sort distinctive to mass-consumption culture: highly salient but without clear meaning, effortlessly accessible but somehow bestowing in-group status.

(from "All For One And None For All," part two of Adolph Reed's two-part series on Farrakhan in The Nation, January, 28 1991)